The Flynn books Darlene Love – and Joan Rivers?

The Flynn Center usually starts trickling out information about its upcoming season in mid-spring. It’s mid-spring, so let the trickling commence. Word has it that the Burlington performing-arts center will have a show featuring ’60s vocalist and 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Darlene Lovein December. The singer of “He’s a Rebel” is also known for her song “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” that she performs on David Letterman’s show every December. Her Flynn show will be in December as well, but I don’t have a performance date for that yet.

Other musical events scheduled at the Flynn in the 2011-12 season, according to the concert websitePollstar, include Celtic folk groups Cherish the Ladies(Dec. 7) andLunasa(March 17) and Quebecois traditionalists Le Vent du Nordon Feb. 17.

Though this isn’t a musical note, here’s another tidbit on the Flynn’s horizon: Joan Riversis supposedly coming to Burlington on April 26 (so you’ve got almost a year to make your plans for that night). If you only know Joan Rivers for making snarky comments on TV about fashion, you might be wondering what kind of a stage show she’ll be doing. Those of us of a certain age, of course, remember that she and Phyllis Diller were among the first female pioneers in the field of stand-up comedy. So, like an Irish or Quebecois traditional band, she’s just going back to her roots.